PRACTICES

Nieto & Castellá's Core Areas of Expertise

With deep expertise in Intellectual Property, Privacy, and Data Protection, we help businesses in Mexico and worldwide secure their rights, navigate regulations, and safeguard their assets. Explore our key areas of practice.

Trademark registration in Mexico - Nieto & Castellá

Trademarks

Specializing in designing tailored strategies that align with clients’ industries and specific needs, the approach supports the inception, preservation, enforcement, and defense of trademarks. By understanding each client’s unique market landscape, bespoke solutions are crafted to protect and enhance intellectual property, ensuring long-term support and safeguarding of trademarks.

Patents

Patents and Designs practices are tailored to meet the unique needs of each client. Comprehensive services cover filing and prosecution, as well as enforcement and litigation. Whether managing the intricacies of mechanical inventions or addressing pharmaceutical innovations for major companies, exceptional representation is delivered to meet diverse needs.

IP

Our practice extends beyond intellectual property rights to encompass a range of closely related areas. These include specialized fields in which we regularly provide strategic advice and tailored support to our clients.

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Privacy

Comprehensive support is offered for the protection and management of personal data, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations and fostering trust between businesses and their stakeholders. Services are tailored to meet the unique needs of each organization, providing strategic solutions for processes and counseling.

Copyrights

We offer comprehensive services for the inception, preservation, enforcement, and defense of copyrights. Our team advises both individuals and companies to protect their creative works, ensuring their intellectual property remains secure and well-managed. Among the clients we proudly assist are writers, broadcasters, publishers, producers, software developers, and fashion and luxury brands.

Litigation of intellectual property rights in Mexico

Litigation

Defending your intellectual property is our priority. We represent clients in trademark, copyright, and patent disputes, handling infringement claims, cancellations, unfair competition, and anti-counterfeiting actions. With deep expertise in IP litigation, we protect brands, creative works, and innovations in Mexican courts and before regulatory authorities, ensuring strong legal enforcement.

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Trademark registration in Mexico - Nieto & Castellá

Trademarks

From strategic planning to enforcement, N&C goes beyond standard trademark defense by offering additional strategies tailored to the specific needs of each case. This empowers clients to effectively defend and enforce trademark rights in diverse and challenging scenarios. Traditional trademark enforcement is complemented with civil claims, actions against unfair competition, and consumer protection remedies.

Prosecution Comprehensive prosecution services ensure robust trademark protection, including clearance searches, expert registrability legal opinions, and seamless registration and maintenance of trademark portfolios in Mexico and internationally. Additional services include watch monitoring, effective handling of oppositions, and assistance with well-known and famous trademark designations.

Counseling Strategic trademark portfolio planning is provided to help clients manage and optimize the value of their intellectual property. Services extend to brand creation and exploitation, franchises, anti-counterfeiting strategies, and trade secret protection. Support is also available for Mexican Customs trademark registry processes and thorough investigations as required.

Transactional Transactional intellectual property aspects are addressed through due diligence, contract drafting, licensing agreements, and efficient assignment and transfer of rights.

Litigation and Enforcement The team is equipped to handle administrative and criminal infringement actions, non-use proceedings, trademark cancellations, and appeals. Enforcement of precautionary and border measures, including injunctions, ensures the defense of clients’ rights both administratively and judicially.

Industries A diverse range of industries is served, including entertainment, luxury brands, food and beverage, consumer products, IT, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, mining, education, and apparel.

Whether navigating intellectual property complexities within established sectors or emerging markets, business-oriented solutions are delivered to meet the highest professional standards.

Patents

Extensive experience includes advising clients on patent infringement cases and offering additional strategic approaches as required. Beyond standard patent defense, strategies incorporate civil claims, actions against unfair competition, and health-related measures, ensuring robust and case-specific solutions for the defense and enforcement of rights.

Expertise extends to counseling clients on the Mexican “linkage system,” which connects the Patent Office and the Health Authority responsible for Marketing Authorizations. This guidance aligns intellectual property strategies with regulatory frameworks for optimal protection.

Prosecution Comprehensive services include clearance searches, Freedom to Operate (FTO) searches and opinions, along with the maintenance of patent portfolios in Mexico and internationally. Prosecution efforts ensure thorough protection at every stage.

Counseling Guidance is provided on patentability strategies, the linkage system with health agencies, and FTO analysis. Strategic insights strengthen patent portfolios and align with industry standards.

Transactional Support is available for due diligence, contracts, licensing agreements, and the seamless assignment and transfer of intellectual property rights, ensuring efficient management of assets.

Litigation and Enforcement Litigation capabilities include administrative infringement actions, patent cancellations (based on novelty and obviousness), appeals, and enforcement of precautionary and border measures such as injunctions. Rights are decisively and effectively protected through these actions.

Industries A wide array of industries is served, including, consumer products, IT, electronics, pharmaceuticals and life sciences,  food and beverage, mining, sports & entertainment, among others. With a deep understanding of these sectors, customized solutions are designed to align with strategic goals and industry-specific challenges.

Intellectual Property Rights

Among these practices are:

  • CONSUMER PROTECTION
  • OFFICIAL STANDARDS
  • ELECTRONIC CONTRACTING
  • LIFE SCIENCES AND THEIR REGULATORY ASPECTS
  • CONFIDENTIALITY AND TRADE SECRETS
  • INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES’ CULTURAL  HERITAGE AND CULTURAL APPROPRIATION

Privacy

  • Processes Companies are assisted in mapping the information they process, creating a clear understanding of data flows and vulnerabilities. Strategic safety measures, including retention periods, deletion mechanisms, and blockage protocols, are designed to ensure robust data management. Expertise includes drafting and implementing essential documents such as privacy notices, privacy policies, security protocols, codes of conduct, and contracts or clauses for the communication of personal data. Operational efficiency is enhanced by developing detailed information flowcharts and establishing consent management frameworks for the processing and transfer of personal data. Guidance is also provided in appointing a dedicated Data Protection Officer or department, along with in-house training to ensure compliance and awareness across the organization.

  • Counseling Expert advice is provided on national and international data transfers, assisting businesses in navigating complex regulatory landscapes. Legal assistance is available to respond to data subject requests and address requirements from regulatory authorities. Through due diligence processes and audits, risks are identified, corrective measures are implemented, and compliance with legal obligations is ensured.

    With a tailored approach and steadfast commitment, the aim is to empower clients to manage personal data responsibly while maintaining the highest standards of privacy protection.

Copyrights

From prosecution to litigation and enforcement, and through counseling and contract development, we provide end-to-end support. Our services extend to representation before various authorities, ensuring our clients’ interests are safeguarded in every facet of their business.

In recent years, our partners have also been at the forefront of advising fashion companies on matters related to the Mexican legal framework for indigenous communities’ cultural heritage and cultural appropriation. This work reflects our commitment to addressing complex and culturally sensitive issues with expertise and care, while supporting our clients in navigating evolving legal and societal landscapes.

Litigation of intellectual property rights in Mexico

Litigation

Our team offers expert advice in the amicable resolution of disputes, seeking beneficial agreements through effective negotiations. We have extensive experience in handling administrative proceedings and in the enforcement of annulment and nullity actions, as well as in filing legal remedies to safeguard your rights.


We defend your interests in court litigation and constitutional actions, including amparos before the Circuit Court of Appeals. In addition, we provide support in the enforcement of judicial decisions, ensuring effective compliance with legal rulings.


Our services include search warrants and seizure of counterfeit goods, as well as representation in domain name litigation. With a strategic and specialised approach, we protect your business at every stage of the legal process.